Experimental docu-fiction, 48 min
Egypt / Denmark, 2018
Research commissioned by ET4U, Denmark
Languages: Danish, English, Arabic — Subtitles: Arabic, English, Danish
The Wardrobe Man follows my research into the life of Æ Skawmand — the Wardrobe-Man, Kristian Vandet Jørgensen — a hermit who lived in a wooden wardrobe on the shore of Oddesund in West Jutland, Denmark, from 1917 until his death in 1956. I tell the story from inside my own wardrobe in Cairo, recounting the research to my friend Shadi. Combining documentary footage and archival material with fictional scenes, the film deliberately unsettles the boundary between fact and fiction, using the coincidence of two wardrobes — one in Denmark, one in Egypt — as a starting point for an inquiry into the relationship between geography, memory, history, and imagination.
Bassem Yousri 